Weiwei Wei Shih
13. Januar 2025
I wouldn’t miss the opportunity to stay in a tulou after spending days checking them out, and I was lucky enough to find just one of my most favourite accommodation experiences ever - 云水谣长荣楼, the Tower of Sustained Glory, at the Ballad of Clouds and Water.
Traditional tulous were poorly equiped for comfort, with claustrophobically small rooms and communal bathrooms. People didn’t choose to live this way - they had to.
Luckily for us, for the grand total of $119 AUD per night, which is so modest of an amount in Australia, where I’m from, we got to stay in a 99 years old tulou renovated with modern creature comforts… and then some. Think a beautiful room dedicated to tea-making. Voice-controlled lights & music, and remote controlled curtains. A smart toilet, and one of the biggest showers I’ve ever seen, with a heater blowing warm air into the shower stall for the cold winters (although the hot water reserve is limited). Did I mention a 2m wide bed in which we slept like babies?
Not to mention the building itself is of course a piece of heritage art.
The few days I have spent with the tulous had thoroughly been one of my most favourite travel experiences ever.
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